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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Klein Bottle House . According to the World Architecture Festival Awards, it's the best home of 2009. F-117 pilots, dorky Tron fanboys, and aliens all through the galaxy would agree. I'm in one of those categories. The Klein Bottle House—located in Rye, Australia—is made of concrete sheets and black metal, surrounded by trees and next to a beach. I like it, but if I had to choose something,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
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BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
" Who would want to be an architect? " the Times asks. In answering that question, the article focuses more or less entirely on London's Bartlett School of Architecture —whose students have been producing some amazing work lately, work that I have often posted about here on BLDGBLOG. Here , here , here , and here , for instance. But, the article claims, "Leave the future to Bartlett...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle ON ONE side of Flora Street is the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, an airy space designed by Norman Foster. Across the street is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a silver cube designed by Joshua Prince-Ramos and Rem Koolhaas. “Aesthetically, it’s stoic, even off-putting,” said the theatre manager,...
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Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Facebook is, like, sooo September 2009. If you're an architect, there's a new social network in town: Architizer . According to Metropolis mag, a couple of starchitecture firms have already joined, including Archi-Tectonics, Steven Holl Architects, and OMA, as well as a bunch of lesser known firms. So far the site seems light on the LA architects, but we did notice Tom Kovac Architecture , INABA ,...
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Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Rotterdam's new city hall will be the greenest building in the Netherlands, thanks to designer Rem Koolhaas. The building's modular design will require fewer resources to build, and is easy to add to if the structure ever needs to expand....
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I like Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas ' creations so much that I want to have his babies. OK, that part is a lie, but I would certainly have his Tony-Stark-worthy Maison à Bordeaux . His new Stadskantoor is quite impressive too. Stadskantoor will be constructed at Rotterdam's City Hall. Designed by OMA, Werner Sobek, and engineers ABT, the building has a modular structure....
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown "arts district" in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus. I went [...]
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The starchitect trumps the competition and wins a high-profile in his hometown. Rotterdam almost certainly has the highest concentration of cutting-edge architects in the world--including MVRDV, West 8, Neutelings Riedijk, and, of course, Rem Koolhaas's OMA. So it's no surprise that the competition to design its new city hall was fierce--and Rem Koolhaas, the emperor of the local design scene, has...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The goings-on at One Madison Park are, in a word, confusing. There are buyers considering backing out of their contracts and angry film fans getting ready to take back Rem Koolhaas's screening room, and the freakin' lobby hasn't even been built yet. To further illustrate the game of shadows at play inside One Madison Park (where every unit except the penthouse allegedly sold, leading to boom-drunk...
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kostis velonis (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon is an ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. An international group of major figures will be brought together to perform in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009, designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
DALLAS, TX (AP).- The spotlight is on Dallas as it opens its $354 million performing arts center, unveiling a new opera house and theater designed by architectural stars with the idea of making the arts more accessible. In the Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas-designed Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, the 575-seat performance hall walls are made of transparent glass, so passers-by can watch rehearsals...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
(TrendHunter.com) Located in Dallas, Texas is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX and Rem Koolhaas of OMA. Not only is this theatre a beauty but it also has a futuristic flair, and takes…
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
When the mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and her fellow American baritone Thomas Hampson take to the stage at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas tomorrow night, they will be marking the attempt by the British-based architecture firm Foster + Partners to design an opera theatre for the 21st century. The singers will stand before a capacity audience of 2,300 in Lord Foster's purpose-built oval design, the...
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